Dmitry Sipyagin

Dmitry Sergeyevich Sipyagin (20 March 1853-15 April 1902) was Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire from 20 October 1899 to 2 April 1902, succeeding Ivan Goremykin and preceding Vyacheslav von Plehve.

Biography
Dmitry Sergeyevich Sipyagin was born on 20 March 1853 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, and he became a bureaucrat. He served as governor of Courland Governorate from 1888 to 1891 and of Moscow Governorate from 1891 to 1893, and he became Minister of the Interior in 1899. Sipyagin was therefore the head of the secret police under Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and he persecuted socialist and communist activists in Russia. On 15 April 1902, he was assassinated by SR Stepan Balmashov in Mariinsky Palace, being shot several times from behind. His successor would be Vyacheslav von Plehve, who would meet a similar fate.